Navi Mumbai
Country: India · 1,119,477 inhabitants · Founded: 1972
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Navi Mumbai (Marathi: नवी मुंबई Navī Mumbaī), formerly New Bombay, is a planned city near Mumbai, India. It was founded in 1971, as a satellite township to take the pressure off the core city. Although it has been only partially successful in this sense, this has been changing with many IT and ITES industries setting up shop here.
This article also covers Panvel, a suburb of Navi Mumbai.
Wikipedia
Navi Mumbai (Marathi: [nəʋiː mumbəi]; also known as New Bombay, its official name until 1995) is a city in the Mumbai Metropolitan Area, located in the Konkan division of the western Indian state of Maharashtra. Navi Mumbai is situated on the Indian mainland, opposite Salsette Island and the city of Mumbai, and is part of Thane district and Raigad district.
The area within the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation has been ranked third among 73 cities surveyed for cleanliness and hygiene by the Union Ministry of Urban Development and the Quality Council of India as part of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, and is being modified through various projects and developments. Navi Mumbai has, for two consecutive years (2022 and 2023), held on to the third rank in the Indian Commonwealth Cleanliness Survey (Swachh Survekshan) — a nationwide sanitation survey of cities — while Mumbai's ranking slipped to 37 in 2023 from 31 in 2022.
Navi Mumbai is home to various educational institutions. Several multinational corporations have their head offices or branches across the city, making it an active business hub. Thane–Belapur Road and Palm Beach Road are major business attractions and upmarket residential areas.